26th Sunday after Pentecost – 6th after Epiphany transferred In today’s holy Gospel we are again given a comparison with nature that explains something fundamental about our faith. Our Lord refers to the tiny mustard seed which becomes a large bush, and to the…

25th Sunday after Pentecost – 5th after Epiphany transferred Today’s holy Gospel speaks to us of the tares sown amidst the wheat. What are the tares that have been sown in the field of the Church? They are the heresies that corrupt the faith…

24th Sunday after Pentecost  Today’s holy Gospel portrays Our Blessed Lord sleeping in the boat while the disciples are about to be immersed in the waves. He seems indifferent to their plight, but in reality He is testing their confidence. This is evident from…

All Saints On this feast of All Saints, Holy Mother Church reads again for us as a Mother reads for her children, the Gospel of the Beatitudes which are the ultimate fruit of the theological virtues of Faith, Hope and Charity. It is because…

31 October – 2 November 2024 This month’s novena begins Thursday on the vigil of All Saints, better known today as Halloween (All Hallow’s Eve). Traditionally it is a day of fasting and so fits well with our triduum. Due to the clearly diabolical…

Christ the King On the day of the Annunciation, the archangel Gabriel told our Blessed Lady that the child she was to bear would “reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of His kingdom there would be no end”. To reign forever and…

22nd Sunday after Pentecost As we approach the end of the liturgical year, St Paul turns our attention to the second coming of Our Lord, which he refers to as the “Day of Christ Jesus”, that is to say, the day on which He…

21st Sunday after Pentecost In today’s epistle, St Paul reminds us that to be a Christian is to be a soldier. Like any soldier, we must have armour, helmet and weapons. Unlike the soldiers of this world, our weapons are of a spiritual nature: truth,…

Solemnity of the Holy Rosary Tomorrow, 7 October, is the feast of the Most Holy Rosary. Today on the first Sunday of the month of October, we celebrate what we call the external solemnity of the feast so as to allow the faithful to…